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GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: Could life have evolved on the longest mountain range on Earth, that is so far under the water it's invisible to most of us? Dr Karl goes in search for the origins of life.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: Headlines don't get much punchier than the recent, "All mammals poop in 12 seconds ...". Dr Karl goes behind the clickbait to reveal the truth.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: Air pollution doesn't just look and smell bad, it kills. And it costs megabucks. Dr Karl unpacks the impact of the great VW emissions scam, and more.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: Cannibalistic behaviour has been observed in many animal species - and, for most of history, in humans as well. What changed?

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: It's a phenomenon known as superfetation, and while it's rare, it can happen, says Dr Karl.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: There's 60 years of space junk floating around the earth's orbit crashing into itself. How do you clean it up?

CLEVER CHEMISTRY: Sending gold out of Hitler's Germany was illegal so how did Nobel prize winners keep their medal's safe?

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: A condition called misophonia-where people adversely react to particular sounds, often with feelings of rage, terror, fear and panic-was first identified 20 years ago, but...

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: With hundreds of muscles and multiple layers of cells, the human lip serves a much greater role than we give them credit for, says Dr Karl.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: For 50 years, air conditioning in commercial buildings has been set using the standards designed for 40-year-old men in business suits. That's left women out in the cold, ...

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: Many factors have contributed to how Earth has changed over time, but humankind has been a major contributor in a relatively short period of time, writes Dr Karl.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: Could lightning power the planet instead of fossil fuels? Dr Karl does the numbers and the answer is surprising.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: It takes a unique series of weather factors to create the awesome power of lightning, explains Dr Karl.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: As New Year's Eve ticked over to 2017, scientists added an extra second to atomic clocks to compensate for the Earth's variable rotation. Dr Karl explains the pros and con...

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: The good news is that if the Earth's rotation stopped, we wouldn't fall off, but it would be a very inhospitable place, Dr Karl explains.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: The collective intelligence of a flock helps protect and save energy, keep them on track when migrating and share food discoveries, as Dr Karl explains.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: Stuck in one spot, waiting for the full moon to pass and the perfect temperature to arrive, and your choice of mate left to the tide: when you're coral, reproduction is mi...

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: At first glance, coral polyps seem to be totally at the mercy of their environment. Dr Karl explains how they survive when they can't move.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: If you've ever had a song stuck in your head, you'll know it's annoying. But as Dr Karl explains, it might be an evolutionary way of keeping us alert.

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: Books, new and old, have a particular smell, but what we call that 'new book smell' isn't always the same from book to book or even from publisher to publisher, as Dr Karl...